The sites are intended to try and prevent overdoses by allowing people to bring drugs to use under the observation of trained staff
During a visit to a park near such a site in Montreal, Poilievre said he would shutter all locations near schools, playgrounds and “anywhere else that they endanger the public.”The first supervised injection site opened in Vancouver more than 20 years ago.
A 2011 Supreme Court ruling said that closing the Vancouver operation would deprive users of their Charter rights. He suggested the federal government has the power to close existing sites under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, under which it grants them an exemption to operate.However, he did sit as a member of the Conservative government of Stephen Harper, which passed the Respect for Communities Act in the years following the Supreme Court’s decision.
But the Conservatives argued the law was needed to strike a balance between public health and public safety. Rona Ambrose, the health minister at the time, said their intention was to allow police and parents to have their say before supervised consumption could happen in their neighbourhoods. Jane Philpott, the former Liberal health minister who ushered in the current government’s amendments to the law, is rejecting Poilievre’s assertions.
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